Public Art Trail 2024

Get involved in a series of fun, participatory, student-created artworks on campus.

What is the Public Art Trail?

RMIT Public Art Trail welcomes you back to RMIT with a series of participatory artworks finding your place and forging connections.

Each of the public artworks was created by an RMIT student with support from RMIT Creative Student Life.

This initiative was originally developed as part of a cross-college undergraduate elective, Public Art Projects within Design and Social Context (DSC). It has since gone on to include collaborations with students outside the elective as well.

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Public Art Trail Showreel 2024

What are the Public Art Trail Projects?

This year, all artworks focus on finding your place and forging connections.

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The Bright Signs by Emi Uili

The Bright Signs is an installation artwork for anyone who has ever felt disheartened or doubtful. Our inner monologues including self-talk and the internalised voices of others can shape our emotions and actions and leave a lasting impact. The Bright Signs seeks to empower students to believe in themselves and practice positive self-talk. 

Location: Level 4, Building 10, City campus

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Glimpses of Home by Caryn Vianka

Glimpses of Home is a sound and video projection work made in collaboration with RMIT students who have shared the sights, sounds and experiences of home. 

Location: Airlock, Level 4, Building 10 and 12, City campus

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Sticking Together by Ngoc Khanh Truong (Marvis)

Sticking Together is a participatory art experience that uses the act of personalising and gifting stickers as an adhesive to cement new friendships. Popping up at events across campus including Orientation welcome events and the Creative Long Table Sessions, Sticking Together invites students to meet a new friends. 

Location: Long tables between the RMIT Store and RUSU, City Campus

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What Makes You Feel Powerful? by Abby Gray

The definition of power is extremely complex and subjective from person to person. Find the brightly coloured What Makes You Feel Powerful response box and share what empowers you.

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ConnectUs by Jade Armstrong

Orientation. Meeting new people. Conversations. These can be overwhelming and daunting. Yet, it’s how new friendships begin. ConnectUs is a bespoke game made using Connect4 as a template with conversation prompts added to each of the tokens. The conversation prompts have been carefully designed by the student artist using psychologists research into forming meaningful human connections. 

Note: ConnectUs is only available on certain days

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Clay Play by Jessica Dybing

Clay Play invites students to sculpt colourful therapy clay into a form that resonates with them and then place their clay avatar on a map of RMIT City campus. A looping time lapse video of all the colourful clay avatars filling up the campus map will be projected on screens around campus.

Note: Clay Play is only available on certain days

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.

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